Aaron Ross Powell ☸️
@aaronrosspowell.com
Host of the ReImagining Liberty podcast. Writing about political ethics. Radical liberal. He/him.
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Podcast: https://pod.link/1614436300
Get early access: https://www.patreon.com/AaronRossPowell
Blog: https://www.aaronrosspowell.com
Not to defend Grok, which is generally awful, but I sometimes wonder how much people are priming it to get these responses. Because if you go to the Grok homepage and ask it the exact same prompt, this is what it tells you.
November 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Not to defend Grok, which is generally awful, but I sometimes wonder how much people are priming it to get these responses. Because if you go to the Grok homepage and ask it the exact same prompt, this is what it tells you.
Trump talks and acts like he's already consolidated authoritarian control. But he hasn't, not even close, and the prospects of him achieving it are getting more and more remote. So I suspect these outbursts are motivated to some degree by his own growing sense of impotence.
November 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Trump talks and acts like he's already consolidated authoritarian control. But he hasn't, not even close, and the prospects of him achieving it are getting more and more remote. So I suspect these outbursts are motivated to some degree by his own growing sense of impotence.
The subject lines for emails from Google about their Google Family services always make the announcements sound much more momentous than they turn out to be.
November 17, 2025 at 9:26 PM
The subject lines for emails from Google about their Google Family services always make the announcements sound much more momentous than they turn out to be.
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
November 17, 2025 at 3:31 AM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
This is a pretty good description of DC's Hirshhorn Museum building. (Even if it misspells the name.)
November 16, 2025 at 11:08 PM
This is a pretty good description of DC's Hirshhorn Museum building. (Even if it misspells the name.)
Well, Donald Trump certainly thinks so.
November 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Well, Donald Trump certainly thinks so.
So the LLMs can now ask other LLMs to do the work for them?
November 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM
So the LLMs can now ask other LLMs to do the work for them?
I'm making this my voicemail greeting.
November 15, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I'm making this my voicemail greeting.
Bluesky's really covering all the bases today.
November 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Bluesky's really covering all the bases today.
This "How often does the person post?" labeler is good for identifying which Bluesky users are the most scary.
November 11, 2025 at 3:16 AM
This "How often does the person post?" labeler is good for identifying which Bluesky users are the most scary.
I imagine this must work on some people, but as a phishing attempt, it's hobbled by the fact that its core claim is proven false by the very fact that I'm able to see the phishing attempt.
November 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I imagine this must work on some people, but as a phishing attempt, it's hobbled by the fact that its core claim is proven false by the very fact that I'm able to see the phishing attempt.
Nothing in this is surprising, but I still I guess have a difficult time imagining the subjective experience of being as fully stupid as Trump seems to be. It's like he operates without metacognitive awareness. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 10, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Nothing in this is surprising, but I still I guess have a difficult time imagining the subjective experience of being as fully stupid as Trump seems to be. It's like he operates without metacognitive awareness. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
I'm going to assume this is about either death or taxes.
November 8, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I'm going to assume this is about either death or taxes.
It's actually pretty easy to find a series as good as "Sherlock" because, let's be honest, "Sherlock" was quite bad.
November 6, 2025 at 12:38 AM
It's actually pretty easy to find a series as good as "Sherlock" because, let's be honest, "Sherlock" was quite bad.
I've somehow made it into the top 10 most popular blogs on @leaflet.pub. You can, of course, help me rise even higher by heading here and clicking that big "Subscribe with Bluesky" button: www.aaronrosspowell.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I've somehow made it into the top 10 most popular blogs on @leaflet.pub. You can, of course, help me rise even higher by heading here and clicking that big "Subscribe with Bluesky" button: www.aaronrosspowell.com
Social media is like an infinite size party. And parties are great. But if all your social interactions are at parties, that would be an awful way to live. The solution isn't to abandon social media, but to make it less dominant in our digital space. My latest: www.aaronrosspowell.com/3m4jmwemgkk26
November 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Social media is like an infinite size party. And parties are great. But if all your social interactions are at parties, that would be an awful way to live. The solution isn't to abandon social media, but to make it less dominant in our digital space. My latest: www.aaronrosspowell.com/3m4jmwemgkk26
This shirt they're selling at the DC airport really does capture our post-democracy political moment.
October 31, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This shirt they're selling at the DC airport really does capture our post-democracy political moment.
If you're a Spinal Tap fan, this book (and particularly the audiobook) is an extraordinary treat. It's the history of the movie, written and read by its director and stars, with special guests. I absolutely loved it.
October 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
If you're a Spinal Tap fan, this book (and particularly the audiobook) is an extraordinary treat. It's the history of the movie, written and read by its director and stars, with special guests. I absolutely loved it.
I told my dog he's disappointed me for long enough and it's time to trade him in. He disagrees. And it looks like Google's AI is unjustly taking his side.
October 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I told my dog he's disappointed me for long enough and it's time to trade him in. He disagrees. And it looks like Google's AI is unjustly taking his side.
Just noticed that subpages are not playing nicely with the RSS feed in that they don't show up at all.
October 22, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Just noticed that subpages are not playing nicely with the RSS feed in that they don't show up at all.
Saw this at the Denver #NoKings. A running theme of a lot of signs and shirts was basically "Be good and decent to each other." Because what we're up against are people who reject the very idea of goodness and decency.
October 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Saw this at the Denver #NoKings. A running theme of a lot of signs and shirts was basically "Be good and decent to each other." Because what we're up against are people who reject the very idea of goodness and decency.
Gonna use my Space Ghost sign again tomorrow.
October 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Gonna use my Space Ghost sign again tomorrow.
Go into your Chat settings and change this "Users I follow"
October 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Go into your Chat settings and change this "Users I follow"